When One Is Silent Not Taking A Position...They Are Peppering Death All Over Everywhere They Go Without Knowing It!

The attitudes we choose to live by affects every person we meet and greet along every steet.

Our opinions, and attitude choices affect not just those we actually speak to...but even more so when we choose to be indifferent in any situation or place in life...

Indifference on issues that transcend society or indifferent to persons among us in our own community or even within our own church has become a universal disease.

 Very common today...particularly by self-justifying ones position saying... "It does not affect me so it is none of my business." and even Pope Francis recently has been tweeting about indifference particularly towards the poor.

I was wearing a button pinned to my bright pink jacket that reads: PRAY FOR ABORTION TO END!"

 At a Graduation lunch in a New Orleans Catholic Parish the Sunday following Father's Day 2013...I was astounded the responses I received & conversation it spawned.

I expect this kind of confrontation if & wear it to the grocery store but not to Catholic Holy Mass & to a party of Catholic Families at a Catholic Church.

I was told that "Even if I personally would not abort my child, I don't have the right nor do you have right to suggest to others what they should do!"

Well is preaching & teaching the Holy Gospel suggesting to folks a better way to live???

And so this statement contradicts the entire life of a christian for we are called to always live by the Holt Scriptures that say:  "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!"

Let HIS life, HIS joy, HIS mercy which endures forever never cease from parting from our lips!

We are to be imitators of God who calls each by name and who speaks good things into being at all times....

We are to like God embracing all that befalls us with great FAITH...speaking hope to the hopeless and life into the dead!

I pray you see this contradiction that we all plainly see and hear all over where ever we go...

Maybe you never thought of in this perspective.

But starting right now this very moment...you can choose to put down the salt &pepper shakers of unkindness, harshness, and most of all...permanently shake off yourself the attitude of  silence & indifference.

Let revival begin now and let it begin with you, by choosing to let God make of you a beacon of HIS light and hope to the world...

Let HIS truth not only glow inside of you...but speak from your lips that which you witness lacking where ever God leads you at any moment.

As Mother Angelica says on her program intro:  We are all called to be great Saints...Do not miss the opportunity...And expect God to give you more & more opportunities to embrace with Faith opening your mouth and be HIS beacon speaking light into dark places and life into the dead!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454